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Volume 2 ,  Issue 1  (March 2004) table of contents
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DEPARTMENT: Departments table of contents
Pages: 92 - 92  
Year of Publication: 2004
ISSN:1542-7730
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

It has been the conventional wisdom for some time that it is more cost effective to use many smaller servers rather than one large centralized mainframe. The arguments in favor of this view are, essentially, that expansion is cheaper and that one is not locked into a single vendor for hardware and software. It is the thesis of this book that, with the advent of implementations of Linux for the mainframe, this conventional wisdom is no longer correct. Indeed, using a mainframe may make greater economic sense.


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